Bio-based polyesters: Recent progress and future prospects

Q Zhang, M Song, Y Xu, W Wang, Z Wang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of sustainable and environmentally friendly polymer materials is among
the most pressing contemporary challenges for polymer science and engineering. Bio …

Poly (glycolic acid)(PGA): A versatile building block expanding high performance and sustainable bioplastic applications

PK Samantaray, A Little, DM Haddleton, T McNally… - Green …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The concerns about the accumulating plastic waste pollution have stimulated the rapid
development of bioplastics, in particular biodegradable bioplastics derived from renewable …

Degradable biomedical elastomers: paving the future of tissue repair and regenerative medicine

B Jia, H Huang, Z Dong, X Ren, Y Lu… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Degradable biomedical elastomers (DBE), characterized by controlled biodegradability,
excellent biocompatibility, tailored elasticity, and favorable network design and …

Sustainable polymers from biomass: Bridging chemistry with materials and processing

Z Wang, MS Ganewatta, C Tang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Renewable natural resources, such as plant oils, fatty acids, cellulose, and lignin, have been
widely pursued as precursors for manufacturing sustainable polymers. There are many …

Wearable triboelectric nanogenerators for therapeutics

X Xiao, G Chen, A Libanori, J Chen - Trends in Chemistry, 2021 - cell.com
Wearable triboelectric nanogenerators (W-TENGs) have triggered considerable attention in
light of their broad and diverse biomedical applications, from biomonitoring to therapeutics …

Recent advances in tissue engineering scaffolds based on polyurethane and modified polyurethane

B Naureen, A Haseeb, WJ Basirun… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Organ repair, regeneration, and transplantation are constantly in demand due to various
acute, chronic, congenital, and infectious diseases. Apart from traditional remedies, tissue …

Review of synthetic and hybrid scaffolds in cartilage tissue engineering

M Wasyłeczko, W Sikorska, A Chwojnowski - Membranes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cartilage tissue is under extensive investigation in tissue engineering and regenerative
medicine studies because of its limited regenerative potential. Currently, many scaffolds are …

Biodegradable elastomers and gels for elastic electronics

S Chen, Z Wu, C Chu, Y Ni, RE Neisiany… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodegradable electronics are considered as an important bio‐friendly solution for electronic
waste (e‐waste) management, sustainable development, and emerging implantable …

A critical review of fibrous polyurethane-based vascular tissue engineering scaffolds

S Fathi-Karkan, B Banimohamad-Shotorbani… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - Springer
Certain polymeric materials such as polyurethanes (PUs) are the most prevalent class of
used biomaterials in regenerative medicine and have been widely explored as vascular …

Electroactive smart polymers for biomedical applications

H Palza, PA Zapata, C Angulo-Pineda - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
The flexibility in polymer properties has allowed the development of a broad range of
materials with electroactivity, such as intrinsically conductive conjugated polymers …